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Published 11-11-2025
ISBN 9780522882001
Pages 272
Subjects Literary essays Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs Decolonisation and postcolonial studies
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First Nations Writing

Meanjin 1977 to today

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Published 11-11-2025
ISBN 9780522882001
Pages 272
Subjects Literary essays Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs Decolonisation and postcolonial studies
Imprint MUP

How First Nations voices shape the national narrative

"This is writing about us, by us", as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier.

First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today captures the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait writers who have shaped the national conversation across peoples, place and time, showcasing the richness of First Nations writing and ideas that reflect on the past even as it imagines a future built on respect, fairness and truth.

It includes work by poets, public intellectuals, writers, philosophers, critics and social commentators that altogether show what it is to be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in Australia then, and now.

Correction: The Introduction to First Nations Writing mistakenly identified Aileen Corpus as Larrakia. Aileen (Louisa) Corpus, also known as Louise Corpus, was born and raised on Larrakia Country, but is a Yawuru, Nanggumiri/Wagiman and Mudburra/Gurindji writer, actor and visual artist.

About The Author

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet, and academic from New South Wales. Her poetry collection Dark Secrets After Dreaming won the Scanlon Prize, and her novel Purple Threads won the David Unaipon Award. Jeanine has won multiple poetry awards, including the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize and the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award. She teaches at…

About The Author

Dan Bourchier is a senior newsreader at the ABC and a passionate advocate for equity, especially for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the LGBTQIA+ community. Born on Warumungu Country, he has worked for various media outlets over a thirty-year career.